Phoenix D Or: 1049 books

This news is inspired by a true story . As ''Boule de Suif'' . Two friends taking place during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Two comrades Morissot Wild and decide to go fishing in the Ile Marante in Colombes despite the instructions of the occupants. Arrested as spies...

On a whim of his wife, M. de Cadour be found in Fécamp. A friend of Mr. Apreval, accompanies them. Hiding from her husband, the old woman leads her partner and former lover in search of their son left there it was more than forty years...

Mr. Patissot , fifty-two years old boy, without great future employee in a department where all laugh at him , is worried. His doctor prescribed exercise and he decided to practice walking every Sunday. He meticulously prepared his first outing to the park of Versailles . But he gets lost...

Toine , innkeeper at Tournevent nicknamed Toine, love to laugh and have fun, until he was paralyzed following an attack . He finds himself at the thank you of his wife who decides to use it in a very strange task : make him hatching eggs! .  

Abbe Marignan is a great lean and fanatical priest , there is no hesitation in his belief , the whole universe is ordered by God in an absolute and admirable logic. The woman is for him a source of unconscious hatred , they are beings that must be approached with caution and defensive needs love exasperates and inconvenient.  

There lived, once upon a time, in the land of Marigliano, a poor woman called Masella, who had six pretty daughters, all as upright as young fir-trees, and an only son called Antonio, who was so simple as to be almost an idiot. Hardly a day passed without his mother saying to him, ‘What...

Several hundreds of years ago there lived in a forest a wood-cutter and his wife and children. He was very poor, having only his axe to depend upon, and two mules to carry the wood he cut to the neighbouring town; but he worked hard, and was always out of bed by five o'clock, summer and winter...

Over all the vast under-world the mountain Gnome Rubezahl was lord; and busy enough the care of his dominions kept him. There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks...

A tailor's apprentice became lost in a forest. When night came, he saw a light shining and followed it to a hut. An old man lived there and, after the tailor begged, allowed him to stay for the night. In the morning, the tailor awoke to witness a fight between a great stag and a bull... 

The narrative opens in an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw where explosions are seen on the surface of the planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community. Later a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common, near the unnamed narrator's home in Woking, Surrey. He is among...

Once upon a time there dwelt on the outskirts of a large forest a poor woodcutter with his wife and two children; the boy was called Hansel and the girl Grettel.

A father once called his three sons before him, and he gave to the first a cock, to the second a scythe, and to the third a cat. "I am already aged," said he, "my death is nigh, and I have wished to take thought for you before my end; money I have not, and what I now give you...

Long, long ago, in the days when fairies, witches, giants and ogres still visited the earth, there lived a king who reigned over a great and beautiful country. He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy...

Thereupon the story is silent of Lancelot, and cometh back to Perceval that had not heard these tidings, and if he had known them, right sorrowful would he have been thereof...